Monitor this....
Where I work, my door entry card monitors when I arrive and leave the office and which floors and rooms I visit while I’m there. Covertly, it can record my movements around the building via the RFID chip, including length of stay in the gents.
The internal CCTV cameras monitor what I’m doing while I move about.
The print queues are logged to see what I printed and when, web and email are all monitored, logged, analysed and profiled.
My phone is recorded.
My work is monitored via check-in reports to the version control system, JIRA, and other tool sets. I also have to complete timesheets.
I accept all of the above in return for the salary I am paid. Freedom to leave and choose another employer, or set up my own business and employ myself on my own terms give me the strongest hand when choosing a level of monitoring I’m willing to accept in return for the salary and conditions on offer. Most of the monitoring is regulatory rather than employers choice, and my boss definitely has better things to do than fret over how long I spend filing paperwork in the gents.
All in all, this sounds like another quango we could cut, no?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
